Jan

28

A Serendipitous Stumble.http://www.teachersatrisk.com/

Filed Under Learning Strategies, Study Skills, Useful Handouts | 2 Comments

coolI’ve just found the coolest way to amuse my curious mind. I stumbled upon Stumble-Upon. Some of you no doubt are already familiar with StumbleUpon and know what a serendipitous find it is. Visit the site and you’re told

StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites.
With a single click of the Stumble button you will
find cool sites matched to your interests.

It’s true. StumbleUpon asks you what you’re interested in, and then when you click on the link in your toolbar you’re in for a wonderful surprise: a site that matches your interests appears. Click ten times and ten different sites appear. I love it. I’ve selected about twelve different interests so that when I click StumbleUpon I’m never bored because I ‘m served such an eclectic mix.

StumbleUpon gave me this site about study skills. It looks very promising and no doubt I’ll be incorporating some of these strategies into my existing study skills package I give my students.

Earlier Todd generously shared an essay writing strategy that works for teaching kids how to write essays. I’m definately going to try it.

I’ve a handout to share that I use to help my students get their thinking organized when they start a new asignment. I’ll post it here. assignment planning sheet Feel free to adapt it for your own purpose. Let me know if it was helpful. Thanks

Jan

20

Study Skills- Learning Plan

Filed Under Goals, Graphic Organizers, Study Skills | 2 Comments

studyingIn real estate it’s about location, location, location. In school it’s about organization, organization, organization. Many of my at-risk or learning disabled students do not do well on exams. They know they should study, but they don’t know how to go about doing it. The entire idea overwhelms them. I’ve found that having my students create a learning plan helps them organize and better prepares them for exams in all their classes, not just mine.

You can access it here. Graphic Organizer-Learning Plan I’ve have tried to use kid friendly language for my grade nine and ten at-risk students. Maybe I’ve gone over board. I don’t know. At any rate, you can change the language to suit your students. I have my students complete one plan for each unit.

I’ve had some of my former students tell me that the learning plan was very useful when they got to college. They shared the strategy with their classmates and their classmates were using it as well.




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